Comment 8 for bug 633983

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satmandu (satadru-umich) wrote : Re: Can't boot Maverick beta amd64 live cd on macbook (EFI)

On the MacBook Pro 3,1 and the 9/25 amd64 nightly build image, I try this:

Hold down option key at boot.
Select "EFI BOOT" CD
I now get grub, with live and install options.

Selecting either gives me this error shortly thereafter:

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff815863e0>] panic+0x90/0x111
[<ffffffff81aee343>] mount_block_root+0x273/0x29e
[<ffffffff81aee3c4>] mount_root+0x56/0x5a
[<ffffffff81aee538>] prepare_namespace+0x170/0x1a9
[<ffffffff81aed8c9>] kernel_init+0x1ad/0x1bd
[<ffffffff8100aee4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff81aed71c>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x1bd
[<ffffffff8100aee0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10